§8-14-5a Special parking lot or parking building police officers. - West Virginia Statutes

§8-14-5a. Special parking lot or parking building police officers.
Every municipality shall have plenary power and authority to provide by ordinance for the appointment of special parking lot or parking building police officers, whose sole duties shall be to patrol, and to enforce municipal ordinances upon or within, designated parking lots and parking buildings either owned by, or leased to, or under the control of, and operated by, the municipality or any board, commission or authority created by the municipality. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twelve, article twelve of this chapter, such special parking lot or parking building police officers may be assigned to police a parking facility established, maintained and operated pursuant to the provisions of said section twelve. In the performance of such duties, such special parking lot or parking building police officers shall be vested with the power to make arrests, issue summonses, sign complaints and request the issuance of capiases. Such special parking lot or parking building police officers shall be in uniform, shall display a badge or other sign of authority, shall serve at the will and pleasure of the appointing authority, and shall not come within the civil service provisions of this article or the policemen's pension and relief fund provisions of article twenty-two of this chapter. The governing body of the municipality may require such special parking lot or parking building police officers to give bond, payable to the municipality, in its corporate name, with such sureties and in such penalty as the governing body may see fit, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties. The cost of providing such special parking lot or parking building police officers may be paid from revenues derived from the parking lot or parking building to which they are assigned.